ŠKODA Ireland is investing €120,000 on a new campaign in Dublin Airport to support its ‘Made for Ireland’ brand proposition, which includes a six panel takeover at the sky bridge in Terminal 1.
For the past 18 months, ŠKODA has used its ‘Made for Ireland’ campaign to show consumers that despite not being built in Ireland, every element of their vehicles’ composition is perfectly suited to modern day Irish lifestyles.
Following two successful home-produced television commercials, which were created by Boys and Girls, the brand has now decided to extend this campaign further and showcase how their current range of vehicles would have fitted in perfectly to events in Irish history and mythology.
The new campaign at Dublin Airport uses popular characters from ancient Irish history and mythology, such as St. Patrick, King Lir, Cú Chulainn, Fionn mac Cumhaill and Oisín & Niamh, to re-enact famous scenes and showcase the ŠKODA range, as the true legends within the given executions.
Working with creative agency Boys & Girls, the ŠKODA Ireland campaign is designed to highlight the creative message that everything about a ŠKODA is, and always has been, ‘Made for Ireland’.
According to Cathal Kealey, Marketing Communications Manager at ŠKODA Ireland: “We are really thrilled with this project which is already creating much discussion from airport passengers. Over the six-months that the campaign will be live, the Made for Ireland creative will be seen over six million times, which is a massive footfall for this high impact campaign. From start to finish, our agency team at Boys & Girls were fantastic. They have managed to capture powerful and emotive scenarios from ancient history and mythology, but also caveat them with the soft satirical presence of our vehicles as the true legends.”
Laurence O’Byrne, Creative Director of Boys and Girls, adds: “The ŠKODA Legends campaign was a great opportunity to create work that plays on the iconic imagery of Irish legends and link them back to the multiple features of the ŠKODA range. Each ad played on a different benefit from the range and linked it back to such legends as The Children of Lir and The Salmon of Knowledge. We worked with the high profile photographer Alex Telfer to create a set of beautiful ads to bring the campaign to life in Dublin airport.”
